Mathias Wehr

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Mathias Wehr (born October 31, 1984 in Schwabach near Nuremberg ) is a German conductor , clarinetist and composer .

Life

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Matthias Wehr began studying clarinet at the Nuremberg University of Music at the age of 16 . During this time he played as a clarinetist in various symphony orchestras, such as the Fürther Streichhölzern, the Erlanger Chamber Orchestra, the Nuremberg Orchestra Group and the Symphony Orchestra of the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Concert tours with the Wagner tenor Siegfried Jerusalem have taken him to Canada, among other places.

After Mathias Wehr had completed his artistic and pedagogical diploma with a major in clarinet, he graduated with honors in 2009 in the second degree in “Wind Orchestra Conducting and Instrumentation” at the Leopold Mozart Center of the University of Augsburg with Maurice Hamers. As part of this training, he worked with the Royal Fanfare (Netherlands) and the Cory Band (Wales), among others. He got his first job as musical director at the age of 18 with the Great Wind Orchestra Burgfarrnbach. For this activity he was awarded the city of Fürth's cultural promotion prize. Workshops for conducting with Pierre Kuijpers and Jan Cober as well as concert projects with Jan van der Roost , Piet Swerts and Ray Farr (brass band in England) expanded his training.

At the age of 23 he won the title “European Conductor of the Year 2008” at the 4th European Conductors Championship in Stavanger, Norway.

As a guest conductor in Germany and Austria, he conducted the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Unterpleichfeld from 2006 to 2016. With this orchestra he won the international top level competition of the German Music Festival in 2007 and the international competition of the “Jungfrau Music Festival” in Interlaken (Switzerland) in 2010. With his third orchestra, the Forchheim Wind Philharmonic Orchestra, he took first place and second place at the Flicorno D`Oro competition in the Superiore category at the 2013 German Music Festival in Chemnitz. In 2011 Mathias Wehr founded the North Bavarian Brass Band, which he has been leading ever since.

As a composer, he won the international Schönwerth composition competition of the North Bavarian Music Association with his second work "Infinity". After the world premiere, Deep Water Night was awarded the 2nd prize in the composition competition of the Volksmusikerbund NRW by the Landesblasorchester NRW. In 2017 his work Throne of the North won first prize and the orchestra award at the international composition competition of the Philharmonic Society in Corfu, Greece.

He made commissioned compositions for the Federal Natural Sound Orchestra, among others. The children's musical The Flying Box is also one of his commissioned compositions.

Awards

  • 2003 Culture Prize of the City of Schwabach
  • 2007 International top level competition of the German Music Festival with the Bleichfeld Symphonic Wind Orchestra
  • 2008 European Conductor of the Year at the 4th European Conductors Championship in Stavanger, Norway
  • 2009 Second prize at the World Music Conductors Championship, Netherlands
  • 2010 First Prize at the International Music Festival, Switzerland, with the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Unterpleichfeld
  • 2010 Culture Prize of the City of Fürth
  • 2011 Second Prize and Audience Prize for Infinity at the International Composition Competition, Germany
  • 2013 First prize at the German Music Festival with Wind Philharmonic Forchheim
  • 2015 Second prize in the composition competition NRW for Deep Water Night
  • 2016 Second Prize Flicorno d`Oro Competition (Superiore) with the Forchheim Wind Philharmonic
  • 2017 Culture Prize of the City of Forchheim " Triton "
  • 2017 First Prize and Orchestra Prize for Throne of the North , Philharmonic Society Mantzaros, Greece
  • 2018 Second prize in the composition competition NRW for Snowflake Lullaby

World premieres

  • 2008 Phoenix, like a bird from the ashes (Symphonic Wind Orchestra Unterpleichfeld)
  • 2011 Infinity (Wind Philharmonic Regensburg)
  • 2013 The Flying Box (Cantemus Choir)
  • 2014 True Lover`s farewell (Forchheim Wind Philharmonic Orchestra )
  • 2014 Deep Water Night
  • 2014 Greetings to Fürth (March) (Burgfarrnbach Music Train)
  • 2015 Traveler under a starlit sky (BundesNaturtonOrchester)
  • 2016 Menosgada (Symphonic Wind Orchestra Unterpleichfeld - horn soloist Tamara Kleinhenz)
  • 2017 Fire in the Glen (North Bavarian Brass Band)
  • 2017 Throne of the North (Philharmonic Society of Mantzaros, Greece)
  • 2018 Markdorfer Jahresreigen (Stadtkapelle Markdorf)
  • 2018 Markdorf anniversary march (town band Markdorf)
  • 2018 Snowflake Lullaby

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathias Wehr - conductor, composer, clarinetist | Welcome to my homepage! In: www.mathiaswehr.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
  2. ^ Udo Güldner: Mathias Wehr: Forchheims new culture award winner. In: North Bavarian News . November 5, 2017, archived from the original on November 5, 2017 ; accessed on March 20, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Wehr, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabach near Nuremberg